Dear Bretheren; Permit me
to greet you again with a "Happy New Year," which I am
pleased to say we are enjoying here, and I am pleased
to hand you herewith Report of our doings in the Eastern
States Mission during the past year; both of Church and
Financial affairs.
The Elders in this Mission are generally well in health,
and are enjoying their labors in the Ministry. Many friends
are being made: places are being a pencil for holding meetings
in doors more abundantly than heretofore, and numbers
of persons are expressing themselves quite satisfied with the
Gospel requirements. It is reported to me that quite a
number of persons would commence a new life with this
"New Year" day by being Baptized.
During the past year much time has been employed visiting
among the people, distributing tracts, and thereby much prej-
udice has been removed, and the first thereof is now ripening.
Dear Bretheren; Permit me
to greet you again with a "Happy New Year," which I am
pleased to say we are enjoying here, and I am pleased
to hand you herewith Report of our doings in the Eastern
States Mission during the past year; both of Church and
Financial affairs.
The Elders in this Mission are generally well in health,
and are enjoying their labors in the Ministry. Many friends
are being made: places are being a pencil for holding meetings
in doors more abundantly than heretofore, and numbers
of persons are expressing themselves quite satisfied with the
Gospel requirements. It is reported to me that quite a
number of persons would commence a new life with this
"New Year" day by being Baptized.
During the past year much time has been employed visiting
among the people, distributing tracts, and thereby much prejudice has been removed, and the first thereof is now ripening.
"Letter from Samuel Whitney Richards, 4 January 1897," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 5, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/PWPz